Show your passion for writing who’s boss by being progressive!

Writing of almost any form can advance your skills. You should try to write as much as possible (preferably at least once a day). Even if you aren’t creating masterpieces and entire novels, just write! Getting ideas and thoughts down will help you out later when you can’t remember them or need inspiration. Also, you can just write fun little scenes that have no over-arching significance!

One possibility you have most likely heard about is a diary or journal. My personal journal is actually a Word document on my computer entitled “lanruoj” (I have a habit of creating inside jokes with myself through the names of my folders/files). In the file, I divulge all of the touchy-feely parts of my life or sometimes just put down my thoughts. This is a great way to get comfortable writing simply by making a habit of putting thoughts to actual words, and also turns out to be an amazing form of catharsis. And who knows, maybe when I’m old and gray, I will find a dusty file on my old computer. On this file will be memories that haven’t been triggered in years, glimpses at what my life was like when I was young, and a tool to measure for how far I have come since I wrote those entries (one can hope).

Green pocket journal
The hand-sized journal I carry everywhere.

I also have a separate journal of sorts where I write my fictional “tid-bits,” as I call them. This journal is technically spread out over a few places; Some parts lie on my phone, some in my creative writing binder, and many in my computer and in a mini book of ideas (pictured above) I keep on me at all times. These tid-bits are random scenes that pop into my head or blurbs of an ongoing story I need to write down before I forget.

You choose what medium(s) and organizational style(s) you find work for you! Write on sticky-notes or scraps of paper and compile them into a box or folder. Create a folder on your computer with multiple files: one for names you come across that you find interesting, one for words/phrases you really like, one for little concepts that may blossom into a story or scene some day. Play around, make it fun! Writing, while the passion for it is serious, is creative and an adventure in itself. So make it a great one!

 

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